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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






2. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






3. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






4. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






5. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






6. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






7. Reserve






8. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






9. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






10. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






11. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






12. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






13. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






14. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






15. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






16. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






17. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






18. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






19. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






20. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






21. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






22. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






23. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






24. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






25. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.






26. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






27. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






28. Provider of products - services or results






29. Processes that organize and manage the project team






30. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






31. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






32. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






33. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






34. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






35. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






36. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






37. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






38. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






39. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






40. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






41. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






42. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






43. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






44. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






45. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






46. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






47. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






48. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






49. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






50. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity







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